‘Cards are for showing off’: Aesthetics of cashlessness and intermediation among the urban poor in Delhi

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In this chapter, I explore how payment technologies such as mobile phone-enabled payments pertain to the lives of the urban poor in the post-demonetisation India. While becoming increasingly widespread after the demonetisation, these technologies and their uses operate on unequal infrastructural terrain and are refracted through social inequalities and unstable income patterns. I show how in this context, the aesthetic production that underlines the use of payment technologies by the urban poor unsettles demonetisation’s technological promise of immediation, and highlights how intermediation, unexpected uses and differentiation of forms of moneys take place.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelWho's Cashing In? Contemporary Perspectives on Newmonies and Global Cashlessness
RedaktørerAtreyee Sen, Johan Lindquist, Marie Kolling
Antal sider16
UdgivelsesstedUnited Kingdom
ForlagBerghahn Books
Publikationsdato1 aug. 2020
Sider73-88
ISBN (Trykt)9781789209150
StatusUdgivet - 1 aug. 2020
Eksternt udgivetJa
NavnCritical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis

Bibliografisk note

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 798706.

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